You’ve Been A Friend To Me F

My bark of life was tossing down
The troubled stream of time
Since first I saw your smiling face
And youth was in its prime

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Oh I’ll ne’er forget where’er I roam
Wherever you may be
If ever I have had a friend
You’ve been that friend to me

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Misfortune nursed me as her child
And loved me fondly too
I would have had a broken heart
Had it not been for you

I now look back upon the past
Across life’s troubled sea
And smile to think ‘mid all life’s scenes
You’ve been a friend to me